Life emerges as an improbable phenomenon in a universe governed by entropy. Yet recent discoveries in biophysics and quantum mechanics suggest that coherence — the capacity to maintain stable correlations among multiple states — may be its deepest foundation. This essay explores the hypothesis that life is a macroscopic manifestation of sustained quantum coherence, capable of resisting universal decoherence through evolutionary and structural strategies. From photosynthesis to consciousness, living systems appear to express a common principle: the organization of time, information, and matter around a coherent axis that holds together what would otherwise tend toward chaos.
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